Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula

Nasir al Wuhayshi, the leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, swore an oath of allegiance to new al Qaeda emir Ayman al Zawahiri. Wuhayshi also said his followers would wage jihad until the world was united under Islam.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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